Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very poorly paid, but the smallest income of any full professsor is about $1,500. If this seem small it is to be remembered that the average professor's salary in America is scarcely more. Relatively few colleges pay over $2,600-$2,200. On the basis of the bare figures alone, the Germans are better off; the advantage of cheaper living and different social requirements is clear gain. The grevious side of the German university cereer is the period of probation; the Privatdocent butters his bread with hopes...
...nature that their genius should be stimulated to better work, rather than be fettered by these same surroundings. This idea applies equally well to students at college. The quality of the work done by every man is affected by the nature of the circumstances under which he lives. A bare and cold garret may be in theory an excellent place to do one's best literary work, but in practise the theory does not meet with much success...
Over half the men in college live here for four years without attempting to adorn their rooms in the slightest. The walls are bare, the floor, or carpet, worn and often times very dirty, the furniture of a most unattractive nature, and no taste whatever displayed in the choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy...
...When Master P. had admonished ye players, ye stronge rusherman of ye faire Harvarde youths sallied yth the balle downe ye north side of ye field toe ye pond of John Eliot. Insomuch as bothe ye teames were dressed in suits of plaine homspune ye men of Yayle were bare-footed that they might be seene. Now close be ye pond of Eliot were foure bigge men of Yayle and they seized ye Harvard rusherman yth ye ball and caste him in ye lak. Whereupon ye youthes of Harvarde maletreted ye men of Yayle. Granther Pinkeytighte stoped ye playe...
...correspondent in Thursday's Transcript gave a very clear account of the composition and functions of the several governing bodies of Harvard College. The communication is headed, "Overseers without Powers." The writer says that he makes no attack upon the overseers, "for a bare statement is attack enough." Following is the substance of the article...